Benjamin Peter
Group leader
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 507
e-mail:
benjamin_peter@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Education & Employment
since 11/2017 | Group Leader Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
10/2014-09/2017 | Postdoctoral scholar with John Novembre, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, USA |
08/2010-08/2014 | Ph.D. in Integrative Biology with a designated emphasis in Computational Biology and Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, USA Advisors: Rasmus Nielsen and Montgomery Slatkin Title: Inference from Two Non-Equilibrium Models in Population Genetics. |
08/2008-02/2010 | MSc in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern, Switzerland Advisor: Laurent Excoffier Title: Distinguishing between population bottleneck and population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice procedure. |
10/2005-08/2008 | BSc in Biology (with special qualification in Plant Sciences), University of Bern, Switzerland |